But we don’t need to stay in the past, or make it our habit. But this thinking is happening in the present. It can be pleasant to root around in our personal history of course, re-live happy times. Our habit is often to leave the experience of now to dig around in the past. If we are concentrating on our future, then we miss the present. So our living in the now is predicated on our ability to predict futures from past experience. But she can predict where it might go, reading her opponent’s body movements and based on past experience. It’s simply too fast for our brain to process. When someone serves a tennis ball the receiver has no time to keep her eye one the ball. We are creatures primed for predicting movement. Quite a programme to inhibit and re-organise. You are contacting the Earth when you are in touch with someone else.Īs we begin to react, over 600 muscles prepare to take action. Whatever you are in contact with, with whichever part of you, is a contact with the Earth. From time to time notice the contact with you feet, and notice your contact with the sitting bones. Let us have an awareness of the Earth day, your connection with the ground. Which part of the elephant are you in relationship with today? Are you practising monkey by bending the knees first or letting the head lead and tilting at the hips first? Are you emphasising direction or playing more with inhibition? It does not matter which. Maybe a day of summer when the fruits of your labours are shining for all to see and you can languidly inhabit some new place as if you have known it all along. Which season do you perceive yourself to be in? Perhaps you are having a day of winter when nothing seems to happening, waiting for the moment to arrive. It is like the sea with big waves and little waves and never still.Īutumn and Spring are very Alexandrian seasons full of change, letting go of old leaves, albeit beautiful flame coloured leaves, and readying the tree and plants for new growth, brilliant greens and yellows. Sometimes just witnessing your own breathing is joy enough. It’s so rare to be stuck, to be lost, to not have the answer. Ten years later Atlantic Starr would reach the Top 10 with Nolan's song, " Masterpiece."Īt the 25th Annual Grammy Awards "A Penny For Your Thoughts" received a nomination for Best R&B Performance By A Duo or Group With Vocal.Maybe the old way doesn’t seem right anymore, but the new way is not so easy to find and you are in this stuck place. "A Penny for Your Thoughts" was his ninth of 10 compositions to become U.S. The B-side of the 45, "The Skin You're In", was also written by Nolan. Three collections of the group's work were issued during the early 2000s by Capitol Records, however, because of their label change to RCA the song was not included among their other hits. Unlike all of their bigger hits, "A Penny for Your Thoughts" did not chart in Canada. Released from their 1982 album New Directions, the song became Tavares's eighth and final US Top 40 hit, peaking at number 33 on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and number 28 on the Cash Box Top 100. " A Penny for Your Thoughts" is a song by R&B/disco group Tavares in 1982, originally recorded by Marion Jarvis in 1975. 1982 single by Tavares "A Penny for Your Thoughts"
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